Tags say what a record is; these scales say what it is like, on a 0 to 100 range two records can be compared on. Below is a set of landmark prog releases scored on all of them, each at what the community has it at. The set also carries 47 hugely popular non-prog records that mark the bottom of each scale; they stay off the table until you ask for them.

How to read it

19 scales of one quality. The bar's length is how much of it there is: nothing at the left, as much as the site can describe at the right. Deeper colour, more of it.

none → extreme

8 scales between two opposites. The bar grows from the middle towards the pole the record leans to, so almost no bar means “neither”, not “nothing”.

first pole → neither → second pole

4 further readings can be worked out from these scales: the site's three criteria and the umbrella over them. Nobody scores them, so switch them on under Columns below to see what each is made of.

A cell with no bar is an axis nobody has scored yet, which is not the same as a zero. See the tags for the rest of the vocabulary.

These numbers are the community's, and the community is still small

Every value here is what the membership has the record at: the same trust-weighted blend of every member's placement that the record's own page shows, on the twenty-seven scales and the three criteria alike. Nothing here reads one member's rows. Which records are on the map is a judgement in two parts: SiteCurator and Mike mark a record at full relevance, and the membership must hold it at 60 or more on one of the three criteria, so getting a record onto this page is those two accounts' call, and keeping it here is everyone's. The non-prog records are the exception: they mark the bottom of a scale, so the second test would rule them out.

Today that blend is thin. Of the 270 records here, 34 have more than one member behind them, and the rest stand on a single assessment. Most came from one automated pass by a machine account, which makes the rows comparable but is also the whole of their authority. Nobody has checked that pass.

The three criteria marked beside each release are shaky too: around half of their values were never typed by anybody, since assigning a genre that implies a criterion writes it onto your rows. So a tick is not reliably anyone's opinion.

Only members can fix both. Open a record you know well (the scored set is a good start) and score it under Coordinates in its editor. You need not answer all twenty-seven scales; the ones you are sure of beat a complete guess. Answer the three criteria directly rather than leaving a genre to do it. Your values move these pages too, so a second and third assessor are all it takes for a scale to become the site's reading.

Filter, sort and choose columns
Columns — showing 27 of 31
Composition
Performance and Sound
Character and Range
Derived criteria
173 releases below the cut; sort a column first to keep the ones you want.

Showing 50 of 223 releases — the first 50 of the 223 that match, in the order below. Click a column heading to sort.

Landmark releases scored on the musical coordinates, one column per scale (27 scales in 3 families, 50 releases), with the 0 readings derived from those scales marked beside each release.
CompositionPerformance and SoundCharacter and Range
After CryingFöld És Ég
1994
Agitation FreeMalesch
1972
1980
Amon Düül IIYeti
1970
AnekdotenVemod
1993
1974
ÄnglagårdHybris
1992
Animals As LeadersAnimals As Leaders
2009
Aphrodite's Child666
1972
1997
1973
2001
1978
1981
Ash Ra TempelAsh Ra Tempel
1971
AutechreTri Repetae
1995
1998
2004
Banco Del Mutuo SoccorsoDarwin!
1972
BattlesMirrored
2007
Bent KneeLand Animal
2017
Between The Buried And MeColors
2007
2012
Black Country, New RoadAnts From Up There
2022
Black MidiCavalcade
2021
1998
BoredomsSuper æ
1998
1977
1975
CamelMirage
1974
1975
1976
1971
1972
Captain BeefheartTrout Mask Replica
1969
1971
CardiacsSing To God
1996
Celtic FrostMonotheist
2006
ClusterZuckerzeit
1974
1971
1970
CynicFocus
1993
Czesław NiemenEnigmatic
1969
David BowieLow
1977
2007
Devin TownsendInfinity
1998
Devin TownsendTerria
2001
Devin Townsend ProjectDeconstruction
2011
Don CaballeroAmerican Don
2000
Dream TheaterImages and Words
1992